Posts about Social Media as of August 4, 2009

Brightkite , a mobile social networking service and GfK Technology , a market research company, recently teamed up to conduct a survey on what people think about social networking. 87% of the 1000 people questioned say they prefer to deal with people face-to-face rather than through technology or smartphones. You can read the entire article in USA Today . How the questions for this survey were structured dictates how the responses are being articulated and thus reported. It’s safe to assume the headline for this story was crafted to get readership, no doubt.  Social networking is all about people interacting one-on-one.

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The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately. “These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries,” reads a Marine Corps order , issued Monday.

Social Networking and Libraries In the library context, social networking presents three interesting opportunities: marketing, professional development, and socially enhanced search. I have already addressed socially enhanced search in relation to Delicious in a previous post, and while I find it to be the most interesting opportunity, I will not discuss it further here. Instead, I will start by providing a brief overview of what social networking is.

For some unknown reason laughingsquid.com has been banned from Digg. I guess that would explain why I haven’t seen any traffic from Digg in a long time. I’m not sure which of Digg’s Terms of Use that we are allegedly in violation of. I don’t submit my own stories to Digg, so any abuse would not have come from our end. Also, just to be clear, it’s not my account that was banned, but the source url laughingsquid.com. Thanks to Mark for the heads-up on the Digg ban , I had no idea.

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Ping – The Digital Age Is Stamping Out Serendipity – NYTimes.com .

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  T-Mobile’s “G1″ is expected to do well in part due to its operating system “Android” which makes touch-based controls possible. By involving finger flicks and long holds to easily navigate through software and gesture-based interactions using the phone’s built-in accelerometer, as well as the ability to use and install a wide range of applications and web tools including Flickr, YouTube, and Google Maps with StreetView. It can synchronize with Google desktop as well as use Yahoo and Microsoft’s instant messaging services.